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In this charming and profound portrait of artistic devotion, celebrated sculptor James Grashow embarks, at age 79, on a four year odyssey to complete his magnum opus: a gigantic, intricate wooden sculpture dubbed "The Cathedral."
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00:00One second. Hold on. Here's where it all happens.
00:04Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do!
00:07We have achieved Angel.
00:11Inchi by Inchi, Leonardo da Vinci.
00:14There's nothing Jimmy likes better than working.
00:18I work for Playboy, Rolling Stone.
00:21I did a piece of the New York Times every three weeks for almost 30 years.
00:26I'm hit with ideas and things to do all the time.
00:29They hit you like thunderballs.
00:31Oh my God, you feel something happening?
00:33The idea of not expressing it is like sitting on a bum.
00:37There's a big collector. He said,
00:39You can do anything you want. What would you like to do? Let's do it.
00:43My wife would get mad, but I think of it as like the grand finale.
00:46Do you know?
00:48I'm doing this piece with the demons and the angels.
00:52But I'm not really a religious person.
00:55I am a person who is searching.
00:58I just kept drawing cathedrals, devils and demons.
01:02And then all of a sudden, there it was.
01:06As a kid, all the time, I thought about death.
01:09Knowing that I was fragile, dust in the wind.
01:12Now everything has this mortal edge on it.
01:16This is gonna be a huge mistake, but I always wanted to make little demon nipples.
01:21I'm gonna do it. Fuck it.
01:24I feel like I've been running in front of a wave, and now I feel the wave catching up to
01:29me.
01:30This is a great piece.
01:33You're a visionary.
01:34This whole project seemed to combine everything that I think about.
01:38Life and death, mortality and eternity.
01:42I just pray that I get to finish it.
01:45I'm in the bottom of the ninth.
01:48What do you say after you've said everything you can say?
01:54I worry about him.
01:55Time is slipping away.
01:58I want to open the gate and invite everybody.
02:06You got it?
02:07No.
02:07You think you hit it?
02:09I never thought I'd get here.
02:11Whoa, whoa.
02:12And all of a sudden, everything is happening.
02:16I'm shaking too.
02:18I think I'm gonna go home and vomit and then take a nap.
02:24Are you okay?
02:25Not really.
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